Legal Opinion
Harold Williams v. William Lesiak
Court of Appeals for the First Circuit
Decided July 7, 1987No. 86-2109PublishedCited by 32 opinions
1Opinion of the Court
BOWNES, Circuit Judge.
This action is the latest stage in a fifteen-year old lawsuit concerned with the remedying of conditions at Massachusetts’ Treatment Center for Sexually Dangerous Persons. Defendants-appellants are the Massachusetts Commissioner of Correction, the Superintendent of the Massachusetts Correctional Institution at Bridgewater, the Assistant Deputy Superintendent, the Senior Correctional Officer and the Massachusetts Commissioner of Mental Health. Plaintiffs-appellees are residents at the Center. Defendants brought this action as a Rule 60(b) motion for relief from a January,…
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